Hawaiian Islands: Interactive Maps of Land Use and Watersheds

This project uses tmap to display land use and watershed data in Hawaii.

Photo by Nathan Ziemanski on Unsplash

Land Use

Click the map to view different land uses:

# Read in land use data
land_use <- read_sf("Land_Use_Land_Cover_LULC")

# Rename land use column for better display
land_better <- land_use %>% 
  rename("Land Use Type:" = landcover)

# Make interactive map of Hawaii land use data
tmap_mode("view")

tm_shape(land_better) +  
  tm_basemap("Esri.WorldStreetMap") +
  tm_fill("Land Use Type:", legend.show = FALSE) 

Watersheds

Click the map to view names of different watersheds:

# Read in watershed data
water <- read_sf("Watersheds")

# Rename wathershed name column for better display
water_better <- water %>% 
  rename("Watershed Name:" = wuname)

# Make interactive map of Hawaii watershed data
tm_shape(water_better) +  
  tm_basemap("Esri.WorldStreetMap") +
  tm_fill("Watershed Name:", legend.show = FALSE)